Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Without further ado - drumroll, please - the winners of the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest are: Print/Photo. Runners-up : Talking Eyes Media , Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software. Other Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. Tags: promotion. But, given how the economy has changed and that we are about to usher in a new era of change, it is also a great idea to set some more external goals. how might you make a change in your community, neighborhood, or the world. What's your idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration? kanter/beth5.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Chris also notes the headlines and tags of videos that are trending and often patterns our next video to capitalize on the buzz. Tags: Social Media The Book. Book Tour ? ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Many activist nonprofits have used it to inspire people to raise awareness, change behavior, or other action. Instagram Contests and Hashtags. Recruiting additional supporters through high quality content and action opportunities. Have you used a contest? Providing information to educate our supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Here's my contest. The way you do it is to start with the intervention - in this case - social media - and trace it backwards to your proposed social outcome, behavior change, or action as a result of communication. Tags: contest. They asked me to participate along with several colleagues. Fine Blog . Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Some things we recommend for a great campaign: Write a powerful and engaging story Have a clear call-to-action with an inspiring ask Include high-quality visuals (BONUS: include a heart-warming video ) GT STEP BY STEP WORKBOOK Tip #3 : Engage your community Let your donors know what specific problem they are helping to solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

More importantly, is “People Talking About” motivating or encouraging “People To Take Action” or “People to Donate” or ” People to Volunteer” or “People to Call their Legislators” or “People To Stop Drinking Bottled Water”? Checking in at a place.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Have a clear call-to-action with an inspiring ask. Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event , contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Tag donors in your posts to get your post in front of more people. GT STEP BY STEP WORKBOOK. Tip #5 : Thank your donors!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

Change the Web Challenge: Finalists Announced - I'm really excited about the 24 Finalists in the Change the Web Challenge - this Challenge called for new applications that use Social Actions' API which aggregates and surfaces all kinds of actionable opportunities from around the web. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. " I agree.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

" Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!) " Share Actions | Social Actions - Check out all of the great Social Actions Change the Web Challenge applications! Tags: roundup bookmarks. Would love to hear if there are any you especially think are useful to your work!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg.

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See3

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is a one-of-a-kind online competition that aims to inspire third-party developers to build innovative tools that make it easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

We just concluded our third TechSoup GreenTech campaign after three weeks of great tips, actions, and content to reduce energy use on your IT. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Tech Planning. It looks like our 5 Things You Can Do in 5 Minutes to Reduce Your Power Use was a useful approach to identifying small ways you can make an impact.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The day will be capped by a demonstration of the top three finalists in the Apps for America 2 contest. the "Mash Pit") to see DataMasher in action! Technorati tags: gov20e , gov20expo. Tags: Events Government Transparency. We're attending the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Washington, DC today.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Enter our contest! Read this post, take two simple actions, and complete a quick survey! Part 1 of this series listed the 5 actions we recommend that you take to reduce the power use of your computer. This post (part 2) explains two of those actions in more detail and tells you how to complete these two actions.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Give shoutouts to your top donors from the virtual event across your social media accounts, and be sure to tag them as you go. Keep the momentum going and host a surprise giveaway across social media with your sponsor by encouraging your community to engage in photo contests. Fundraiser results. People want to be recognized.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. The videos would be submitted into a contest, and the winning submission would be posted on their MySpace page and featured in a film festival. Why wasn't this a huge success like the Oreo Jingle contest ?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Enter our contest! Read this post , take two simple actions and complete a quick survey! Part 1 of this series listed the five actions we recommend that you take to reduce the power use of your computer. Part 2 explained in more detail, two cost-saving actions and tells you how to complete those two actions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A greater focus on campaign core priorities: the story, the message, the call to action. No contest. He’s a muppet of action. Tags: 10NTC E-mail mark rovner NPTech Social Media Web Sites Communications. Session: That's Not Funny: Using Humor in Online Communications . Which Muppet do you most identify with and why?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Enter our contest! Read this post , take two simple actions, and complete a quick survey! Part 1 of this series listed the five actions we recommend that you take to reduce the power use of your computer. Part 2 and Part 3 explained in more detail how you could easily complete four cost-saving actions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. Tags: NPTech change the web NTEN web2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

We're having a contest to encourage you to reduce your computer's energy comsumption. Read this post, take two simple actions, complete a quick survey, and you'll be eligible to win! It's not always easy to get a significant number of individuals to take these easy actions, but we can reach more people with your help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. 25% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag were a reply to @kanter. These were collected using storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I’m not talking about a popularity contest. We’re in a position, largely due to social, where we can make collective action happen every day on social media. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are three main types of crowdsourcing: Work, Input and Action. Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Action can also include online voting initiatives to get a wider audience to participate in decision-making. Measuring Action. You are looking to raise $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

You can add hashtags and location tags to make your photos even more searchable. Melissa Thompson is an activist filmmaker, documentarian, and senior video producer for Greenpeace USA , which recently ran a global contest to encourage its activist community to submit Vine videos in honor of Earth Day. Super-Short Video Examples.

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Care2

MARCH 31, 2010

Or to vote for you in a contest? Care2 is social action network of more than 12 million civically engaged people who want to make a difference by supporting the issues and causes they care about. Tags: Care2 Webinars. * Mobilize an army of e-activists to win advocacy victories for your cause (while building your own army)?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

By listening for these things we give ourselves the opportunity to take action. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. In day to day life we listen for mentions of our name, topics we’re interested in, hobbies we participate in, our company or industry, and friends or family. Have I left anything out?

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